WHAT:
Brain Bowl 2014, a Jeopardy!-style quiz event sponsored by the Center for Biomedical Neuroscience at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
WHEN:
7 p.m. Tuesday, April 29
WHERE:
UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78229
WHO:
Teams from The University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas A&M University and UT Arlington
WHY:
Training the next generation of neuroscientists studying schizophrenia, addiction, Parkinson’s disease and many other conditions
COLOR:
David Morilak, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology at the UT Health Science Center, is the emcee. The judges ring cowbells and blow horns, often comically. Dr. Morilak frequently inserts humor, such as this from last year’s Bowl: “The next category is drugs and the brain, which I caution you to know too much about — I remind you that your advisers are watching and maybe your parents, since we’re on live web feed!”
This is the 15th Brain Bowl at the Health Science Center.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, one of the country’s leading health sciences universities, ranks in the top 3 percent of all institutions worldwide receiving National Institutes of Health funding. The university’s schools of medicine, nursing, dentistry, health professions and graduate biomedical sciences have produced more than 29,000 graduates. The $765 million operating budget supports eight campuses in San Antonio, Laredo, Harlingen and Edinburg. For more information on the many ways “We make lives better®,” visit www.uthscsa.edu.